Five-year-old Sterling Faulkner suffered major injuries in a January 7, 2009 Bakersfield pedestrian accident after he was struck by a drunk driver while crossing the street with his mother. According to this ABC news report, Sterling and his mother, Spring Faulkner, were crossing O Street just north of 34th Street…
Retired Marine Douglas Perry, 58, of Anaheim, was forced to stab and kill a loose pit bull that attacked his wife, Vicki Perry, and their two dogs. Both Douglas and his wife were injured in the dog bite attack, which occurred when the couple was walking their two dogs –…
A lawsuit from a former employee at Eternal Hills Cemetery and Mortuary accuses the mortuary of several disturbing practices including double-selling cemetery plots and permitting employees to look at deceased people whose bodies were brought in after horrendous accidents or suicides. The cemetery, which is the largest in Northern San…
A 22-year-old Rosemead man who died after his vehicle veered off a Los Angeles County roadway and rolled down an embankment in the Angeles National Forest has been identified as Simon Alexander Perez. According to this article the Los Angeles Daily News, the accident occurred January 5, 2009 on the…
Drew Heredia, a 9-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero for saving a 12-year-old dog attack victim, who was bitten by a pit bull while walking her dog. According to this news report, Drew says he and his friend were walking a small dog on December 30, 2008 in…
The family of 46-year-old Ernesto Beltran who died after losing control of his car and plummeting into a Los Angeles flood-control ditch is suing the city and the county for not building a barrier along the freeway he was driving on, according to this news report. Beltran’s family alleges in…
A 48-year-old Orange County woman is in critical condition after she was injured in a motorcycle accident in Buena Park on December 30, 2008. According to this news report in The Orange County Register, the woman, who has not been identified, was traveling south on Artesia Boulevard when she lost…
Jacob Jack Martinez, 24, of Hemet, was killed in a bicycle accident on December 28, 2008 after a suspected drunk driver ran a red light and struck him. According to this news article in The Desert Sun, Keokialii Young, 21, was driving a pickup west on Florida Avenue when he…
Officials are looking at whether a Golden Empire Transit (GET) bus driver in Bakersfield was driving recklessly when she struck and killed 62-year-old James Tate who was walking in a marked crosswalk. According to this news report in the Bakersfield Californian, the accident occurred on December 26, 2008. The GET…
Three people were hurt in a six-vehicle chain-reaction crash December 29, 2008 on the 57 Freeway south of Chapman Avenue in Placentia, which began when one of the drivers swerved to avoid a bedliner in the lanes. California Highway Patrol officials say that this was a bedliner that must have…